NEW DELHI: 'Idiot' is a grossly misused word and an oversimplified epithet, if one goes by the Supreme Court's brand new definition of the term. It is almost impossible for a person to qualify as an idiot, says the Court and theref ..
The security threat to the Karnataka High Court appears to have been taken seriously at last by the city police which on Monday deployed 12 gunmen armed with sophisticated SLR rifles to patrol its grounds.The gunmen will check every vehicle entering ..
New Delhi: The Supreme Court chided advocates for seeking adjournments on flimsy grounds like traffic jams, as such an attitude only compounded the woes of people caught in endless litigations."What traffic jams? Let there be rains, sunshine or even ..
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday strongly backed the idea of having national identity cards for all citizens of the country to identify illegal immigrants and infiltrators, including those from Bangladesh. A bench of Chief Justice K G Balakri ..
Advocates of the AP High Court have taken an unprecedented decision to move the Supreme Court to end the delay in appointment of judges. An extraordinary general body meeting of the Bar Association of the AP High Court held here resolved to file a wr ..
New Delhi: The Law Commission of India has rejected as “non-feasible” a parliamentary panel’s proposal to introduce Hindi as a compulsory language of work in the Supreme Court. In its report submitted to Union Law Minister H R Bhardwaj on Friday, La ..
Judges Can Lower The Sentence Only In Exceptional Cases: Ruling New Delhi: The Supreme Court has disapproved the wide discretion exercised by higher court judges in reducing the sentence imposed by trial courts, sometimes even going below the minimum ..
New Delhi, Jan. 2: The Central government has finally decided to take the ordinance route to provide a three-fold salary hike to judges of the Supreme Court and high courts. The decision to promulgate an ordinance was taken at a meeting of the Union ..
Mumbai: An 11-year-old Labrador has emerged a champion of dog rights by not only winning for himself the right to travel in the elevator of his apartment complex in a Mumbai suburb but getting his master a Rs 5,000 compensation from the apartment’s a ..
Chennai: The Madras high court has rejected a PIL filed by a retired police officer demanding a “total or partial ban” on Google Earth. The Bench comprising the acting chief justice S J Mukhopadhaya and Justice V Dhanapalan disposed of the petition ..